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Canon Law Explained

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Not only inefficiency, but frustration, disorder, anger, and injustice threaten all human endeavors, no matter how pure their motives or high their ideals. That’s why successful organizations all the time create employee handbooks and clear procedure manuals that delineate where authority lies, how conflicts are to be resolved, and, above all, how each organization’s mission is (and is not) to be accomplished.

Is it any wonder then that the Catholic Church—comprised not of 200 persons but 1.2 billion members in 200 countries—also governs itself by way of a handbook, which it calls the Code of Canon Law?

Because handbooks and manuals concern themselves with the day-to-day inner working of organizations, they continuously reveal more than do news releases about the actual purposes and genuine spirit of organizations: a fact that’s particularly true in terms of the Catholic Church.

Indeed, if you wish to know the Church for who She is, you wish to have to be familiar with the Code of Canon Law. Unfortunately, it contains over 1,752 rules (or canons). Among them, you’ll be able to find fascinating canons that lay out the Church’s official principles and procedures governing matters as quite a lot of as abbots and annulments, scandals and Sacraments, monks and missions, bishops and books, priests and popes, synods and sacraments, homeschoolers, hostile witnesses, baptisms, burials, parishes, penance, confessions, Councils, impotence, imprimaturs, and, even marriages to the person who murdered your spouse!

Thankfully, Vatican expert and veteran author Fr. Laurence Spiteri has in the pages of Canon Law Explained relieved you of the need to read all 1,752 of them (fascinating or not). Here he acquaints you with the fundamental canons by which the Church seeks to bring about, as it declares in the very last canon, the purpose all of them serve: “The salvation of souls, which must all the time be the supreme law in the Church.”

Fr. Spiteri’s brief, but lucid explanations of the origins and meaning of the canons make sense of much that puzzles non-Catholics about our Church and that on occasion frustrates even us Catholics. As he relates the Church’s laws and procedures directly to Christ’s command “to go forth and teach all nations”—and to the role those laws and procedures play in your salvation and mine—Fr. Spiteri transforms what seem to be dry-as-dust rules into the sweet waters of salvation.

If you wish to have to know the Church for who She is—and to love Her more—Canon Law Explained is the book for you.

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